SSP
#Insagepeople: 15 - 21 January 2018
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Brokers still critical of SSP Pure reliability more than a year after the outage
CEO responds as users claim tech company has further to go on service and communication while exiting broker complains of high charges to retrieve data.
SSP focused on brokers following “regrettable and detrimental” outage
CEO Steve Lathrope discusses the software house’s results for 2016/17 and addresses the impact of the outage.
Broking Break: Your Top 5
A frantic start to the year on the news front saw acquisitions, a familiar theme from 2017, continue to dominate. Miles Smith, Markerstudy and Endsleigh being sold to A-Plan dominated the list but there was still room for SSP’s outage costs to make an…
SSP reveals outage cost
Results for the year ended 31 March 2017 show a profit dip and detail how much the highest paid director received.
#insagepeople 9 - 15 October 2017
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Ageas offers livechat via Acturis, Applied Systems and SSP
The insurer is the latest provider to adopt live webchat services via a number of software houses.
Bollington's Paul Moors hails "excellent" results for 2016
CEO says 2016 results were "best for some time" after pre-tax profit rose by 54%.
Steve Lathrope replaces Laurence Walker as SSP CEO
Walker takes on the executive chairman role.
#Insagepeople: 7 - 13 August 2017
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Flood Re targets broker distribution
The organisation said in its annual report that “more work needs to be done to improve access to Flood Re backed policies through insurance brokers”.
Higos makes 2016 loss but turnover grows
MD Ian Gosden says more deals are in the pipeline with GRP backing.
Quizzical questions: 21 July 2017
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SSP partners with Axa on live-chat service
Allianz was first to go live with the service with more insurers expected to follow.
Broking Break: Your top five of the week
A Gumball blog, solvency figures, new software, warnings for brokers and an insurer closing were voted the top five stories by brokers’ clicks over the week.
SSP confident of winning customers with new service
Adrian Coupland says SSP Broking is the result of years of development.
SSP launches SSP Broking
Adrian Coupland says offering is the first of a number of new developments.
Transactor passes Biba software house review
The review was prompted by SSP's failures last year.
Acturis passes Biba software house review
Theo Duchen hails track record of resilience and investment in infrastructure.
Quizzical Questions: 26 May 2017
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Harvey Pettitt moving to Open GI from SSP
Broker was with with the technology company for 15 years.
SSP passes Biba's software assessment
The review was prompted by SSP failures last year.
SSP outage highlights importance of business continuity planning
Latest incident arose due to SSP making adjustments to embed new clients onto its new data centre, it said.
SSP confirms service disruption and apologises to users
Brokers frustrated at further service outage issues at the software house.